Re: Question about Generating Possible Plans by the planner/optimizer

From: "Steinar H(dot) Gunderson" <sgunderson(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Question about Generating Possible Plans by the planner/optimizer
Date: 2004-08-07 01:11:48
Message-ID: 20040807011148.GA6617@uio.no
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:28:38PM -0500, sandra ruiz wrote:
> in the docummentation about the planer it says:
>
> "It first combines all possible ways of scanning and joining the relations
> that appear in a query"
>
> I would like to know if there's a time limit to do that or if it just scans
> ALL the posibilities until it finishes..no matter the time it takes..

Depends; if you join a lot of tables, it stops doing an exhaustive search and
goes for genetic optimization instead:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/geqo.html

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